VINTAGE VAUDEVILLE Rosalba Beecher by Gilbert & Bacon Cabinet Card - NO RESERVE

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VINTAGE VAUDEVILLE Rosalba Beecher by Gilbert & Bacon Cabinet Card - NO RESERVE:
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VINTAGE VAUDEVILLE Rosalba Beecher by Gilbert & Bacon Cabinet Card - Cabinet card of the actress Rosalba Beecher. Identified mount verso as \'Rosalba Beecher /3/21/86 / in \'The Hedumans\'. With Gilbert & Bacon\'s photographic logo mount recto.During her stage career, Beecher appeared in one Broadway play, “Prince Methusalem” (1884). Miss Beecher is mentioned in a New York Times (1900) article concerning her divorce from Clarence Lyman Collins of the dry goods commission firm of Whitin Collins. Mr. Collins had filed for divorce because he alleged that his wife, whom he married in 1886 (She was 23 and he was 38 years-old), was causing him financial ruin with her excessive extravagant spending. It was alleged that her spending was creating a grave economic problem for Collins and she agreed to return to her pre marital profession of being an opera singer. She moved to Paris to get experience before executing her plan to return to singing on the American stage. She stayed in Europe for several years. While there, she continued her incessant spending and Collins found himself forty thousand dollars in debt. An interesting side note is that Collins’s first wife was a Vanderbilt
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